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...explode it did, with such hellish force as to eliminate almost immediately all hope that any of the 132 people aboard -- five crew, 127 passengers -- could have lived. Except for the tail, USAir 427 shattered into so many pieces that the twisted and burned shards of metal were unrecognizable as airplane wreckage...
...Dazed and Confused" we do not see the down and out of the 1990's generation, but the pranks and antics of a generation before. It's the last day of school 1976 and the rising high school seniors are out to haze some rising freshman tail...
...stunning question that may never be answered: Was Shoemaker-Levy 9 really a comet, or was it an asteroid instead? Comets tend to be a mixture of ice, rock and dust, along with substances, like carbon monoxide, that evaporate easily to form a halo and a tail. Scientists studying the chemical composition of the spots on Jupiter where S-L 9 hit thought they might see evidence of water and oxygen, two of the expected products when an icy comet vaporizes. But except for one unconfirmed report,researchers have found only ammonia, hydrogen sulfide and sulfur...
Asteroids are rockier than comets. Yet it is possible for an asteroid to have a halo or a tail, made mostly of dust. Says Hal Weaver of the Space Telescope Institute: "The only real evidence that ((S-L 9 was)) a comet is that it broke apart, and we've never seen that in an asteroid. But maybe this was a fragile asteroid...
...other athletes is that she says what she thinks. Ask a question. Martina answers. No punches pulled. About her sexuality, she has said, "I've shown a few homophobes that their prejudices were not well founded . . . I don't have horns on my head. I don't have a tail...